VIDEO: #Iran efficiently launches the Ghaem-100 satellite launcher. Ghaem-100 is a three-stage, stable gas launcher that may be capable of place satellites weighing 80 kg in an orbit 500 km above the Earth’s floor. https://t.co/6DoOiOgtJ5 pic.twitter.com/8Me2q8qz7gNovember 5, 2022
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard efficiently launched a brand new rocket designed to finally ship satellites on Saturday (Nov. 5), in accordance with state media stories.
The take a look at flight launched Iran’s new Ghaem 100 rocket, a three-stage solid-fueled car, on a suborbital take a look at flight, in accordance with nation’s state-run IRNA information company and Reuters (opens in new tab). It’s designed to hold satellites of as much as 176 kilos (80 kilograms) into orbits of about 310 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth, they added.
“The flight take a look at of this satellite provider with a solid-fueled engine … was efficiently accomplished,” Reuters quoted IRNA (opens in new tab) as reporting. Precisely the place Iran launched the take a look at flight from was unclear.
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Saturday’s launch examined the first-stage of the Ghaem 100 rocket, in accordance with Aljazeera (opens in new tab). The brand new rocket will likely be used for future launches of Iran’s Nahid communications satellites, stated Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the top of the Revolutionary Guard aerospace division, Aljazeera added.
The take a look at flight follows the launch of an Iranian military spy satellite by Russia in August of this 12 months, the primary flight of the country’s Zoljanah suborbital rocket in 2021 and the nation’s first homegrown launch of a military satellite in 2020 on a Qassad rocket.
U.S. officers watch Iran’s rocket packages carefully attributable to considerations that such space launch know-how may be used to develop ballistic missiles as long-range weapons.
Final month, the satellite operator Eutelsat accused Iran of jamming two satellites used to broadcast Persian-language tv and radio from exterior the nation. That grievance, in addition to Saturday’s launch, come amid widespread anti-government protests in Iran following the dying of an Iranian-Kurdish lady detained by Iran’s police.
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